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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1773854" data-attributes="member: 2205">Heh.  I guess the best deal is to be intimately familiar with Japanese culture and language, then.  My neighbor, fellow boardmember shadowlight, occasionally downloads anime without subtitles or dubs, because he speaks Japanese, lived in Japan for a while, and does it primarily to stay "in practice" with the language (not much call to use it around here, I'm afraid.)  Ironically enough, he's not a huge fan of anime, he thinks it often has great concepts usually marred by flawed execution.I usually feel the same way, but I always have to wonder if a big part of the "flawed" execution is simply an artifact of the translations, or my distance from Japanese culture, with which I have very little experience.And this whole discussion comes at an interesting time for me personally; I've kinda been deciding again that maybe I need to give some more anime a shot, based on the simple expedient that I found a DVD copy of Plastic Little in our public library, so I checked it out.  Again; I thought flawed execution; it was a bit too rushed feeling, the villain was incredibly cardboard, and it suffered from occasional exposition dumps in the form of rapid dialogue.  The gratuitous bouncing boobies was more "cute" than annoying, which actually kinda surprised me; I expected to be annoyed by that when I saw that one of the special features of the DVD was a "Jiggle Counter."But, the bottom line was, I still enjoyed it enough to spark me to look into some other shows I could get via Netflix; I think I put Najica on my queue based on a review I found out there somewhere, and I put the Street Fighter movie on, although I've seen that before, just because I like Street Fighter.  I'll probably start another thread where I can ask for some recommendations.  Also, any good outlets to catch some anime on cable TV?  I know the Sci-Fi channel used to show some on Saturday mornings early, and doesn't the Cartoon Network have a regular anime hour or something like that?  It'd be a great opportunity to catch a show that I otherwise wouldn't have thought of.And to not be completely off-topic, at least the Yu-Gi-Oh series tends to have decent translations.  I'll give them that; that's one flaw the series does not have, to its credit.  Unfortunately, it seems to suffer from plenty of others.  Even my 8-yo kid, who's a bit of a Yu-Gi-Oh card shark, doesn't get very excited about the show.</blockquote>

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